Seventh Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics
- Virtual Meeting, via UN headquarters, New York
- 10-19 November 2020
The Seventh Meeting of the Expert Group on Environment Statistics will be held virtually on 10-19 November 2020.
Meeting documents
Papers and Presentations for the Meeting
Opening Session: COVID-19 and environment statistics
- UNSD - Impacts of and responses to the pandemic on environment statistics
- Italy - COVID-19 statistical measures and the related SDGs
- Brazil - Information production to support coping the COVID-19 in Brazil
Session 1: Environment Statistics Toolbox
- UNSD - Status and completion of the Manual and implementation tools (ESSAT and NAP reporting templates)
- UNSD - Draft chapter on Environmental Health Statistics
- UNSD - Draft chapter on Wastewater Statistics
- Netherlands - Water quality, nutrient budgets
Papers and Presentations for the Meeting
Session 2: Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
- UNSD - Global Set of Climate Change Statistics and Indicators
- UNFCCC - Linking climate change statistics and policy
- IPCC - IPCC’s guidelines and tools for the national GHG inventory
- UNECE - Updates on UNECE work in climate change-related statistics
- Hungary - Hungarian challenges and outcomes of the Pilot Survey
- CARICOM - From environment statistics to climate change statistics in CARICOM - an exploratory approach
- EUROSTAT - Eurostat’s work on climate change-related statistics
- UNSD - Results of the Pilot Survey
- Suriname - Structure of the draft Global Set - Suriname’s experience
- Tanzania - Metadata template of the draft Global Set
- UNSD - Introduction to group work on the draft Global Set
Session Three: Environment Statistics Data Collection
- UNSD - Introduction to data collection activities
- FAO - FAO agri-environmental data collection and progress on SDG 2.4.1
- CBD - Building a coherent biodiversity monitoring system to support national, regional and global decision making
- Suriname - Suriname’s experience on the Global Biodiversity Framework: flash presentation
- UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics (Water) – results and uses of the data collection and relevance to SDG indicators
- FAO - Selected SDG indicators related to the FAO Aquastat Questionnaire – 6.4.1 and 6.4.2
- OECD - OECD/Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland Waters and related international collaboration
- UN-Habitat - Progress in SDG indicator 6.3.1 on wastewater
- Ireland - Using meteorological data for water statistics: flash presentation
- UNSD - UNSD/UNEP Questionnaire on Environment Statistics (Waste) – results and uses of the data collection and relevance to SDG indicators
- UN-Habitat - Progress in SDG indicator 11.6.1 on waste statistics
- UN Environment - Indicators 12.4.2 and 12.5.1
- Nepal - Waste management baseline survey
- UNU - Utilization of e-waste data
- Palestine - E-waste in Palestine
- Tanzania - Tanzania’s experience on compilation of e-waste statistics - achievements and challenges: flash presentation
Session Four: Capacity Development in Environment Statistics and Climate Change Statistics
- UNSD - Inventory of capacity development events and activities
- Green Climate Fund - Capacity development for climate change
- Luxembourg - Luxembourg experience in capacity development during COVID-19
- Finland - Experience from Finland
- ESCWA - Capacity development in environment statistics and climate change statistics in the Arab Region
- ESCAP - A demand-driven approach to statistical capacity development: Advancing environment statistics, environmental and ecosystem accounting in Asia-Pacific
- ECLAC -Environment, climate change and disaster statistics and indicators work in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Australia - Capacity development work
Recent updates
Climate Change Statistics
FDES 2013
- Basic Set of Environment Statistics
- FDES 2013 brochure
- Blueprint for Action
- Environment statistics compendia
- Environment Statistics Self-Assessment Tool
- Framework for the Development of Environment Statistics (FDES 2013)
- SDG indicators + Basic Set (FDES) matrix
- Manual on the Basic Set of Environment Statistics
- Expert Group on Environment Statistics